Krakow: Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Skip-the-Line Tour

Highlights

  • Visit the former Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz & Birkenau

  • Choose on of multiple meeting points all over Krakow

  • Explore both Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II Birkenau with a skip-the-line ticket

  • Witness the horror of Nazi concentration Camps with a licensed guide

Summary

Visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and museum on this skip-the-line guided tour. Explore both Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II Birkenau and discover the terrible history of the camps.

Why take this tour?

Visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, on the convenient tour with booked tickets, skip the tickets line access, a professional guide and transfer from one of the multiple meeting points in Krakow. Transfer between Krakow and Auschwitz takes 1-hour and 15-minutes, after arrival is a 15-minutes break. The whole tour is divided into two parts, Auschwitz I and Birkenau located 3 km away from the first camp. Transfer between camps is provided by the tour operator, the tour leader will inform the group about the exact program and timing. Museum Visit Firstly visit Auschwitz I memorial site for approx. 2h with a, accompany of a professional guide through the whole camp. Enter to camp through the main gate with the inscription “Arbeit Macht Frei" (work sets you free). Pass brick Barack's, see the artefacts, photographs of prisoners, reconstructions of the whole complex as well the only remaining gas chambers and crematories. Then, continue the visit with a guide to the camp Birkenau for about 1h. Enter to horrifying wooden blocks, where almost 1000 people were living in inhuman conditions. See the ruins of has chambers and crematoria, a part of the industrial genocide of Nazi Germany. Return to Krakow to the same locations as the starting meeting point.

What’s included?

  • Entrance tickets to Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Sites

  • Professional licences tour guide in the chosen language

  • Headsets to hear the tour guide clearly

  • Pickup from one of the multiple meeting points all over Krakow

  • English speaking driver/tour leader

Things to know

Before you book

  • Regarding Terms of Use at the Auschwitz & Birkenau Museum, it is mandatory to provide the full names of all participants of the tour. Please ensure to put all participants' names in the booking.

  • All visitors must pass through airport-style security.

Before you go

  • A voucher is not an entry ticket to the museum, it allows you to use the service of the tour operator. You will be pleased to show your voucher at the starting point on the day of the tour.

  • You will be informed about the exact pickup time on the day before the tour after 5 pm.

  • Please arrive at the meeting point 10 minutes before the activity starts.

  • During the course of the tour, you will get no more than 10 to 15 minutes of break. It is advised that you carry your own food and water to reduce undue delays caused by ordering food on the spot.

  • Tickets for children (3-11) includes entrance ticket without the receivers and headphones in Auschwitz. If you want your child to visit with a headset please contact the local supplier at least 24h before the tour to check the availability of the headset.

  • Please ensure to take a student ID card, valid on the day of the tour, for every youth/student ticket(s) you bought, otherwise you will need to pay an extra fee (40zł) for an adult ticket

Cancellation Policy

    Up to 24 hours before the beginning of the activity: full refund Less than 24 hours before the beginning of the activity or no-show: no refund